Our planet was showered with charged particles from the sun in the middle of the night on Sunday and Monday. The clash of solar andterrestrial particles in Earth's atmosphere caused stunning Auroras to appear at lower latitudes than usual and triggered a surprise appearance of STEVE in southern Canada.
The green and violet light on the camera was caught by Alan Dyer, an astronomy writer and photographer based in southernAlberta, Canada.
Steve lasted about 40 minutes, appearing as the Aurora to the north subsided. Steve likes to appear here more than anywhere else, because he was discovered here.
The ancient Chinese text contains the Earliest documented Aurora.
The sky glow called STEVE was first described by citizens in northern Canada. STEVE consists of an enormous ribbon of light, which can hang in the sky for an hour or more, accompanied by a "picket fence" of green light that disappears within a few minutes.
When it was discovered, the river of light was considered a completely unknown phenomenon. Scientists have a better idea of what's happening.
STEVE is a thin line of hot gas that travels hundreds of miles in the sky. Satellite observations show that the hot air inside STEVE moves 500 times faster than the air on each side.
In a region called the subauroral zone, STEVE appears much lower in the sky than it does in the north. According to Live Science, solar particles aren't responsible for Steve. Steve usually shows up after the northern lights start to fade during solar storms.
One hypothesis states that STEVE is the result of a sudden burst of thermal and kinetic energy in the subauroral zone, triggered by the clash of charged particles higher in the atmosphere during a solar storm. There is more research that needs to be done. We can wave back at its green fingers while it is still glowing.
It was originally published on Live Science
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